Prelude: The American Landscape in 1760 --

A Tour of the Northern Colonies --

A Tour of the South --

The Atlantic Trading Community --

The Atlantic Economy --

The Staple Trade --

The Urban Experience --

The Atlantic Cultural Community --

The Educational Exchange --

The Scientific Exchange --

The Artistic Community --

The Literary Community --

Dawn of Enlightenment --

Religious Awakenings --

British America in 1763 --

The Imperial Challenge, 1763-1770 --

Writs of Assistance --

The Parson's Cause --

Parliament Takes a Hand --

The Stamp Act --

Parliament Retreats --

A New Challenge: Townshend Taxes --

"The Bloody Business on King Street" --

The Road to Revolution, 1770-1774 --

An Internal Distraction: The Regulators --

Controversy over the Wilderness --

Samuel Adams: Lonely Rebel --

Orchestrated Violence: The Tea Parties --

The Continental Congress --

Economic Warfare --

Struggle for Independence, 1775-1778 --

Gathering an Army --

Common Sense --

The Revolution as Civil War --

An Island versus a Continent --

From Long Island to Trenton --

Contest for the Fourteenth Colony --

The Hinge of Fate --

A World War --

A Nation Born --

Winter at Valley Forge --

Stalemate in the North --

Conquering the Northwest --

The War Shifts to the South --

The Road to Yorktown --

The Financial Crisis --

The Peacemakers --

The Revolution at Home --

Thirteen Republics --

A Bourgeois Society --

African Americans, Slave and Free --

Liberty's Daughters Become the Republic's Mothers --

Reform with Caution --

A Time of Trial.